contemptuous - Story 21806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The inheritance document lay open on the kitchen table, a stark reminder of his father’s deception. Ethan stared at the numbers, the percentages, the names. This "Ava" was to receive a portion. He felt a wave of coldness wash over him.

He slammed his fist on the table, making the papers jump. The anger simmered. The thought of sharing what he considered his own – even a mere portion of it – was an affront.

He poured himself a large whiskey, the amber liquid swirling in the glass. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating. He wouldn’t be manipulated. He wouldn't acknowledge her. Not now. Not ever.

He took a long swallow, the liquor burning a path down his throat. He thought of his mother, the widow. He thought of this half-sister and his eyes narrowed.

Emotion: contemptuous

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.40 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion contemptuous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 contemptuous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the contemptuous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the contemptuous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.502
`l`	0.423
`fact`	0.287
`either`	0.265
`👎`	0.262

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.367
`unexpectedly`	-0.303
`serendip`	-0.265
`Suddenly`	-0.253
`previously`	-0.250